respire
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Tiny pores on a leaf’s underside are arranged to take in carbon dioxide and respire water, allowing the plant to transform sunlight into energy.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 23, 2021
On average, pregnant women suffer twice as many bites, as they respire 20% more carbon dioxide, and have a marginally elevated body temperature.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2019
Other invertebrates, such as land snails, respire using a mantle cavity lined with moist tissue and blood vessels.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2018
But at night, plants and animals respire and take away too much oxygen, said the study’s lead author, Denise Breitburg, a marine ecologist at SERC.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2015
The usual way of looking at them is as enslaved creatures, captured to supply ATP for cells unable to respire on their own, or to provide carbohydrate and oxygen for cells unequipped for photosynthesis.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
The environment in which the animal lives greatly determines how an animal respires.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
"Culture is his air and water; he respires ideas, and whistles and hums as he does so," Leonard wrote.
From US News ● Sep. 18, 2015
A rat respires 100 to 200 times a minute, a cat 20 to 30 times, an adult human 16 to 24 times,* a horse 6 to 10 times.
From Time Magazine Archive
Man, and the climate, too, seem in unison; one meeting the cares of life with a far niente manner that is singularly in accordance with the dreamy and soothing atmosphere he respires.
From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by Cooper, James Fenimore
The skin, which is noted to be reddish, purplish or mottled, is œdematous, stiff and tense; in consequence the infant is unable to move, respires feebly and usually perishes in a few days or weeks.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
"These associations may help explain why some organic molecules remain protected in soils while others are more vulnerable to being broken down and respired by microbes."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2026
As oxygen from the environment combines with the sugars in patats, it gets respired from the roots as carbon dioxide and water.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2021
Several persons present then received a quantity of respired air into their lungs, whereupon the premonitory symptoms of apoplexy, as already given, ensued.
From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Mayhew, Ira
My lungs respired with greater difficulty, and my knees knocked and jostled, as though faint from weakness.
From Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. by Rhodes, W. H. (William Henry)
Invisible and subtile particles emanate from odorous bodies, and are brought by the respired air in contact with the terminal filaments of the olfactory nerve, upon which an agreeable or disagreeable impression is produced.
From A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers by Hutchison, Joseph Chrisman
Their role as predators can even help with carbon dynamics, keeping carbon locked up in marine sediments, or by controlling the amount of respiring biomass in our seas.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2018
Roberts’s abdominal cavity looked like the inside of a mossy, yellow cave lit up by miners’ headlamps; vasculature appeared like streaks of mineral ore, the liver like a respiring troglobite.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 19, 2016
The mitochondrion is thought to have been a respiring bacterium and the chloroplast to have been a photosynthesizing relative of the cyanobacteria.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 1, 2013
As carbon pours into the bucket through photosynthesis, it constantly leaks out through other processes, mostly decomposition and respiring plants and microbes.
From US News ● Apr. 18, 2011
With this, we were off to an explosive developmental stage in which great varieties of respiring life, including the multicellular forms, became feasible.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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